Downtime is a huge problem for maintenance managers. It backs up your production schedule and hurts your profits. Far too many organizations run their equipment to failure instead of performing routine, planned maintenance to prevent downtime. By creating an effective maintenance plan and putting it into place with the help of maintenance management software, you can start scheduling and planning maintenance work and minimize downtime. You won’t be able to prevent every possible incidence of asset failure but you’ll get on track and feel like you’re running your maintenance operations instead of the other way around.